Carnegie Mellon launches preorder platform

Millennials crave convenience, and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is taking steps to provide it through a new meal preorder option. Launched in February, GET Food is an application developed by software vendor CBORD that allows users to order and pay for food and beverages from select campus dining outlets and designate a pickup time.

The orders can be placed up to a week in advance, though no one to date has gone nearly that far into the future, says Mandi Semple, dir